OMG! Look at these hybrids and rare fishes!

[yikai]

Rare blenny in Japan!

Ecsenius Oculus (Rarely available, caught in Okinawa)

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another rare japanese blenny! and a gorgeous one too! we need more exposure for shallow water japanese reef fish. only up till the recent year, the only exports from japan are the staple intteruptus and wrought iron butterflies. now the selection is better, and we can get lunatus fairy, assessor randalli, bellae goby and hopefully in future, kamohara fang blenny. but the japanese need to target more reef fish like like beautiful ecsenius, and i m sure there are many other gorgeous little fish that can appeal to the masses.

our love for japan fish does not encapsule tosanoides, lanceolatus and other super deep super rare fish. the divers should be more open to shallow reef fish! it's a new era liao they must get updated.

Two new Liopropoma Africanum in Japan

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beautiful. one of my favorite liopropomas. but expensive.

[yikai]

New shipment of Pseudojuloides Sp. in Japan!

Only one piece this time from Marshall Island shipment. In the picture you can see other marshall fishes like traceyi damsel and a small neopercularis hog.

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AH!

i have been wondering where this fish has gone to!! i remember there was one big shipment of these and then gone! so nice to c it back.

more info pls, which lfs? how much?

[Digiman]

what priolepis is this?

This should be hipoliti.

[Digiman]

AH!

i have been wondering where this fish has gone to!! i remember there was one big shipment of these and then gone! so nice to c it back.

more info pls, which lfs? how much?

Came in through a Marshall Island shipment on 28th July 2013.

Fish is 7cm and was sold at 105000 yen at Japan Lagoona LFS http://lagoona.ocnk.net/product/2528.

Previous batch of fish from another LFS sold for 98000 yen.

So its en expensive pencil, but look at that fish! The electric blue! I want one!

[FuEl]

Meiacanthus anema. the only brackish water meiacanthus and can survive in low salinity

This is in Sg already, swimming in Wilson's tank. A blenny that no one wanted to buy.

[yikai]

Koji is sending these to U.S next week.

the list is strange and consists of a baby modestus butterfly (highly desirable size), large interrupta angels, an auripes butterfly, a golden hawk.

i don't know what the striped fish is and the filefish. digi, terry, care to help?

[yikai]

grilled niphonia bigeye in japan.

fried naso unicorn tang by jake adams, probably in africa where he is now.

[yikai]

new arrivals at dejong.

what on earth is that giant yellow jawfish?

and terry for you. a pail of stripeys.

[yikai]

remember this dixurus dottyback that dejong brought in?

[yikai]

let's recap some of the other dottybacks that dejong also had around the same time.

a pair of aberrant diadema dottybacks.

and the ever sought after lubbockichthys tanakai

[yikai]

luzonichthys waitei. lovely anthias that i remember we were all waiting to see, and we were disappointed when they eventually did appear at CF. not as colorful and v sensitive.

a pail of roseafascia. only dejong can pull this kinda stunt.

[Terryz_]

Koji is sending these to U.S next week.

the list is strange and consists of a baby modestus butterfly (highly desirable size), large interrupta angels, an auripes butterfly, a golden hawk.

i don't know what the striped fish is and the filefish. digi, terry, care to help?

I want that stripe fish..

The filefish seems normal, except 2 which looks like a different species..

[Terryz_]

new arrivals at dejong.

what on earth is that giant yellow jawfish?

and terry for you. a pail of stripeys.

Both is my fish.. lol.. That is not a jawfish, it is a orange toadfish..

[yikai]

Both is my fish.. lol.. That is not a jawfish, it is a orange toadfish..

you never cease to amaze me with your ridiculous choice in fish!

LUMPFISH TOADFISH!!?

[Terryz_]

The striped fish is a Oplegnathus fasciatus , barred beakfish..

[yikai]

new rarities at dejong.

Paracirrhites xanthus - golden hawkfish

Ctenochaetus flavicauda - white tailed bristletooth tang

weird blennies as well.

Acanthemblemaria hancocki

Acanthemblemaria balanorum

[yikai]

labelled as rusty x shepardi, but who really knows its identity anyway?

it's beautiful though. very neat and regular barring.

[yikai]

beautiful n rare poliorus angel on LADD now.

only one came to CF before and no more ever since.

[FuEl]

you never cease to amaze me with your ridiculous choice in fish!

LUMPFISH TOADFISH!!?

Iwarna had before..2-3 times, from Philippines.

[yikai]

beautiful 2 inch zanzibar butterfly at LADD.

and a pair of ORA tapeinosoma dottybacks.

[OldTownJoe]

This is Bodianus tanyokidus. I noticed there aren't any photos of this species easily available on the internet. This is taken from Gomon's revision of the genus. Specimens are known from the Comoros Islands and Mauritius in the Western Indian Ocean and Okinawa in the Pacific. I can't find any depth records, but Gamon states it occurs deeper than B. opercularis (42-61 meters)... but hopefully not too deep for aquarium collection someday.

[Digiman]

This is Bodianus tanyokidus. I noticed there aren't any photos of this species easily available on the internet. This is taken from Gomon's revision of the genus. Specimens are known from the Comoros Islands and Mauritius in the Western Indian Ocean and Okinawa in the Pacific. I can't find any depth records, but Gamon states it occurs deeper than B. opercularis (42-61 meters)... but hopefully not too deep for aquarium collection someday.

I first come across this picture of the tanyokidus when i was searching for the identity of my bodianus sp from Tahiti. While the colors of the two are quite similar (assuming the color of the dead fish above is accurate) the body shapes point towards different species. Locations where they come from are also different.

For comparison:

Bodianus sp. (A young fish)

Bodianus sp. (An adult, pic taken by Copps)

[yikai]

another tigerpyge.

this time in the states by quality marine.

[iskay]

What is this pinkie???

[yikai]

What is this pinkie???

wow i have never seen anything like this before.

it looks like a cirrhilabrus, but no juvenile or female cirrhilabrus has this pattern or tail.

i'm stumped.